Health systems and hospitals have expanded through mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships in the past several years. EHR giants Epic and Cerner have benefitted the most from this market consolidation, building a combined 85% market share among large, 500-bed U.S. hospitals.

Doctors at organizations in Stage 7 of the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model report better functionality, more personalization of EHRs and better teamwork among clinicians, according to a new KLAS-HIMSS Analytics report.

Hospitals that reach the pinnacle of the HIMSS Analytics' EMR Adoption Model have more satisfied docs, more widespread personalization of EHRs and better teamwork between clinicians, according to a new survey with HIMSS Analytics.

Between 2017 and 2018, 17.43% of the country’s hospitals greatly expanded their investment in hospital digitisation, and 29.78% slightly increased their investment, showing that in the future, the overall investment into hospital digitisation will continue to increase.

The top security challenges mentioned by providers in a conducted survey include transparency, frustration by the FDA, asset visibility, shared duties, unsecured medical devices, and confronting legacy devices.

According to KLAS researchers, “while vendor performance is low across the board, most frustrated customers plan to stay with their behavioral health vendor due to limited resources and a lack of compelling alternatives.”

According to a the results of a recent KLAS poll survey, more than two-thirds of providers say surveillance technology employed for sepsis detection has led to a significant improvement in patient safety outcomes, with some reporting a 50% decrease in mortality.

One industry expert has said it would be interesting how these events play out as athenahealth is a disruptor in a market that is ripe and ready for change, and with a possible sale, and with new leadership and new management coming in, there’s a lot of changes that would happen, both on the provider side and for athenahealth on the vendor side.

A research by KLAS to track changes in electronic medical records (EMR) provider market share in acute care hospitals discovered that smaller hospitals are seeking innovative IT solutions that would meet their needs on a tight budget, with the contracts making an impact on the EMR market